New technology allows us to change fundamentally the narrative we live in, how we organize our world. Enormous opportunities are opening up to steer (even as an individual) the transition underway into a sustainable direction; an urgently needed transformation of the existing economy as well as a new parallel online and local economy. As a […]

New technology allows us to change fundamentally the narrative we live, how we organize our world. Enormous opportunities are opening up to steer (even as an individual) the transition underway into a sustainable direction. Therefore we envision 2 innovative basic services: PES = payments for ecosystem services; we are working on an online platform to […]

What is TreeCredits system? TreeCredits is a system to reward eco-services, like growing trees; to reward anybody who deserves it, globally. We propose a small mainly pay per tree, with a maximum of 1000 trees a person. TreeCredits Foundation conducts trials in India and Kenya, however its primary task is to develop an efficient universal […]

Social bank /social coin; needed to build a parallel economy Introduction In my quest to have a positive impact on a global scale: how to scale up local sustainable development and how to finance it, the Social Bank and Coin are the more recent, but most essential building blocks to create a highly effective delivery […]

The Good Group want to help all idealists, working for a sustainable future! Especially private development initiatives who want less headaches and more impact for the good we call to join and cooperate! What and how to get the necessary change implemented? We have been working on this for years and found the (tree) solutions……treecredits […]

Agroforestry “Agroforestry involves the intentional integration of trees with other aspects of agriculture,” Baker said. “There’s not only a place for foresters in agroforestry, but also row crop, livestock and even horticultural producers.” Practices Agroforestry concentrates on five main practices: alley cropping, forest farming, silvopasture, riparian buffers and windbreaks. “Alley cropping is the practice […]

SONIA’S YET ANOTHER GIFT TO FARMERS Writes to PM to mount a national agroforestry mission to reward farmers for growing trees and other woody perennials NEW DELHI : Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written to the Prime Minister to announce India’s first agroforestry policy and mount a national agroforestry mission to reward the farmers for growing […]

1. SOLAR FARMS integrated rural power plants Food, income, water, energy, climate services 1.1 Outline project To install 25 grid tied solar power plants of about 400kW each in 25 villages, with a total of 10MW installed power in thin film solar panels, with a potential to generate a total 20GWh/ year = $2.4mn/ […]

1. SYNERGY SOLAR FARMS Medium sized pv Solar Power combined with community forestry Lord Nicholas Stern: The two defining challenges of our century are climate change and poverty. And if we fail on one, we will fail on the other. 2009 1.1 SUMMERY To combine the management of small and medium sized solar […]

Towards the Tree solution Wouldn’t it be great if there was a system where community-based organizations, like http://www.vakanala.org from Madagascar, could plug into existing information and money streams for tree planting and climate care? And if there was also a transparent standard, a simple and easy to monitor solution that paid for growing trees, and […]

Note This project report summery dates October 2011; we are ready to start at short notice, fieldworkers are already approached, tree nurseries started. By now I am used to ask $2 per trees for projects in SriLanka and I see no money reserved for initial software for registration. Initially I planned to work through existing […]

It is a long story…I had been down in South America close to three years, and still had barely touched the surface of what is down there, so lots of that continent is still on the bucket list…..After a weird acid trip at Huini Huaynu, thru the Puerta del Sol of Macchu Picchu some 6 […]

Keep rainforests – they drive the planet’s winds 31 January 2013 by Fred Pearce Magazine issue 2902. Subscribe and save WHAT creates the wind? Anyone will tell you that temperature differences are key. Hot air rises and is replaced by cooler air surging in beneath. Except that maybe the explanation found in every textbook is too simple. What […]

Rainforest Rescue International (RRI) is a non-profit organisation based in Galle, Sri Lanka. Established in 2002 by a group of environmentalists to rescue rainforest plants under threat from logging and new developments. RRI works to protect vulnerable environments through ecosystem restoration, development of sustainable livelihoods, education, research and advocacy. Activities of the organization To address […]

Provide easy access to credit to make clean technology affordable for people on low incomes in developing countries Poverty reduction and environmental sustainability are sometimes seen as separate issues, but often tackling one also helps to address the other. Take cookstoves for example: dirty but cheap, they can trap people in poverty. Smoke inhalation from traditional cookstoves […]

A new report by the World Bank paints a bleak picture of life on Earth in 80 years: global temperatures have risen by 4 degrees Celsius spurring rapidly rising sea levels and devastating droughts. Global agriculture is under constant threat; economies have been hampered; coastal cities are repeatedly flooded; coral reefs are dissolving from ocean […]

“The economic, social and political elements of climate change”, . Abstract If climate change mitigation is a right of humanity and planet Earth, “Global Risk”, as an index – the combined world political, economic, social and warfare risk that is rapidly resulting from the unparalleled planetary ecological degradation with strategic natural-resource scarcity, over pollution […]

In Durban, last week the catchword was `climate smart agriculture`, earlier terms like agroforestry, permaculture, food forest and green belt movement were used, all concepts of planting trees for food and income. This climate smart, park like, bio diverse, land use might well turn out to be the major tool in the fight against climate […]

BOGOR, Indonesia (16 October, 2012)_Making informed decisions on how to reduce carbon emissions from forestry and agriculture requires some solid knowledge about potential tradeoffs between development and conservation objectives: what you manage to win through avoided deforestation or reduced cropping emissions has to be weighed against possible farm income losses when first-best farming strategies have […]